Limni ( el, Λίμνη meaning "lake") is a town and a community in the northwestern part of the island of
Euboea
Evia (, ; el, Εύβοια ; grc, Εὔβοια ) or Euboia (, ) is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from Boeotia in mainland Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait (only at its narrowest poin ...
,
Greece
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. It is located northwest of
Chalkida and southeast of
Istiaia
Istiaia ( el, Ιστιαία, , before 1913: Ξηροχώρι - ''Xirochori''2.537 Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Istiaia-Aidipsos, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an are ...
. Limni is part of the municipal unit of
Elymnioi, and it was the seat of the municipality Elymnioi. The community Limni had a population of 2,046 in 2011. It is built at the foot of a mountain slope, on a bay of the
North Euboean Gulf
The North Euboean Gulf ( el, Βόρειος Ευβοϊκός Κόλπος, ''Voreios Evvoïkos Kolpos'') is a gulf of the Aegean Sea. It separates the northern part of the island Euboea from the mainland of Central Greece. The narrow Euripus Strai ...
. It has been suggested as the site of the ancient city of
Elymnion.
Subdivisions
The community Limni consists of the following settlements:
*Limni
*Chronia
*Katounia
*Myrtias
*Retsinolakkos
*Sipias
Population
People
Limni was the home of the
independence
Independence is a condition of a person, nation, country, or state in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the statu ...
fighter
Angelis Govios,
Greek resistance activist
Lela Karagianni and the film director and screenwriter
Nikos Tsiforos. In 1959 the English writer
Philip Sherrard
Philip Owen Arnould Sherrard (23 September 1922 – 30 May 1995) was a British author and translator. His work includes translations of Modern Greek poets, and books on Modern Greek literature and culture, metaphysics, theology, art and aesthet ...
bought part of disused magnesite mine near Limni, planted trees and plants where the former mine installations had been, and restored the abandoned homes of the former directors who had lived there before the Second World War. From 1977 until his death in 1995 it was his permanent home. Greek-American real estate magnate
George M. Marcus was born in Limni in 1941.
See also
*
List of settlements in the Euboea regional unit
This is a list of settlements in the Euboea regional unit, Greece.
* Achladeri
* Achladi
* Aetos
* Afrati
* Agdines
* Agia Anna
* Agia Sofia
* Agios Athanasios
* Agios Dimitrios
* Agios Georgios
* Agios Ioannis
* Agios Loukas
* Agios ...
References
External links
Limni on GTP Travel Pages
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Populated places in Euboea